If you have provided us with personal data we will only use them to answer your queries, process mutual contracts and manage technical administration.

This also applies to the use of the contact form on our website.

Your personal data will only be disclosed or transmitted to third parties if it is necessary for the processing of contracts – e.g. in case of the passing on of order data to distributors –, for billing purposes, or if you have given consent for disclosure of your data. You have the right to revoke consent, effective in future, at any time.

The deletion of stored personal data is executed in case you revoke the consent for data storage, or if data use for the fulfillment of any purpose has become needless, or if a storage is illegal according to existing laws.

NEWSLETTER

In case you want to order our Newsletter, we require your email address, the verification of you being the owner of the provided email address and your consent for receiving the newsletter henceforth. These data are necessary for the sending of the newsletter and the documentation of your consent to do so. Your data will not be passed on to third parties. The order of the newsletter and the consent for storage of your email address can be revoked at any time.

RIGHT TO INFORMATION

On written request and without additional charges, we inform you about stored data related to your person.

CONSENT, RIGHT OF WITHDRAWAL AND RIGHT OF OBJECTION

In case of processing data for a purpose that requires your consent according to existing laws, we will always ask for your explicit consent and keep record about your consent according to data protection regulations. You may always withdraw your consent, effective in future, at any time and/or object to future use of your data for purposes of promotion, market and opinion research. For a withdrawal of consent or objection a simple message is sufficient. You may use the above mentioned contact data without other charges than those of the standard telephone rates.

WEB ANALYSIS WITH GOOGLE ANALYTICS

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. On this website IP anonymization is active.

On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (including your IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Google will not associate your IP address transmitted by Google Analytics with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

This website uses Google Analytics with the extension “anonymizeIP()”, in order to process only truncated IP addresses for the exclusion of direct personal reference.

USE OF REMARKETING OR “SIMILAR AUDIENCES”-FUNCTION BY GOOGLE INC.

The provider uses the Remarketing- or Ad Groups Function by Google Inc. („Google“) on this website. Via this function the provider may address the visitor of the website with specific advertisement, displaying personalized, interest-related ads for visitors of the provider’s website in case he visits other websites of the Google Display Network. In order to process the analysis of the website use, providing the basis for the creation of interest-related ads, Google applies the so-called Cookies. Herefore, Google implements a small file with a number range into the visitor’s browser. Via this number range, the amount of visits of the website, as well as anonymized data concerning the use of the website are registered. No person-related data about the website visitor are saved. If you visit another website within the Google Display Network ads are displayed before you that are very likely to have considered previously visited product or information areas. You may deactivate the use of Cookies by Google following the hereby provided link and downloading and installing the offered plug-in: https://www.google.com/settings/­ads/plugin/. Alternatively, you may deactivate Cookies of third parties by selecting the deactivation site of the Network Advertising Initiative under http://www.networkadvertising.org/­choices/ and implementing the mentioned information concerning the opt-out. Further information about Google Remarketing as well as the privacy statement can be found under: http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/.

USE OF GOOGLE ADWORDS CONVERSION-TRACKING

We use the online advertisement program „Google AdWords“ and, related to Google AdWords, also Conversion-Tracking. Google Conversion-Tracking is an analysis service of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; „Google“). As soon as you click on an ad placed by Google a Cookie for Conversion-Tracking is implemented on your computer. These Cookies lose validity after 30 days, neither contain person-related data nor aim at personal identification of the visitor.

In case you visit specific sites of our website and the cookies are still valid, Google and our company may detect your click on this ad and the redirecting onto the respective site. Every Google AdWords client is provided with a different Cookie. Therefore it is impossible to track Cookies via the websites of AdWords clients.

Information obtained by means of the Conversion-Cookie is useful to generate conversion statistics for AdWords clients that have decided to use Conversion-Tracking. Clients are provided with the total number of users that have clicked on their ad and have been redirected to a site using a Conversion-Tracking Tag. However, they don’t receive personal information related to the user’s identity.

(1) For an optimum web presentation we use cookies. A cookie is a small text file that is stored in the temporary store of the web browser. Cookies are deleted after closing the browser. Other cookies (long time cookies) remain stored on your computer and recognize it at the next visit. This enables a better access to our website.

(2) Users can decline cookies by selecting the browser specification “Block Cookies”. Please note, however, that this may reduce the full functionality of this website.

SOCIAL PLUGIN FROM FACEBOOK

We use Social Plug-ins from facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. Plug-ins can be recognized by the Facebook Logo or the adding “Facebook Social Plug-in”. If you click on the “Like” Button or give a comment the respective information will be directly transmitted from your browser to Facebook and stored. Additionally, Facebook makes your likings public to Facebook friends. As soon as you are logged in to Facebook, your visit to our site can be related directly by Facebook to your Facebook account. Also, if you are not logged in or don’t even possess a Facebook account your browser transmits information (e.g. which websites you visit, your IP address) stored afterwards by Facebook. Details about the use of your personal data by Facebook as well as your legal rights can be taken from the data privacy rights of Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php. If you don’t want that Facebook to relate data collected about you on our website to your Facebook account, you have to be logged out previous to your visit of our websites.

SOCIAL PLUGIN FROM TWITTER

We use the „Social Plugins“ Twitter and Re-Tweet by twitter.com, operated by Twitter Inc. 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107. If you use the Re-Tweet function the websites visited by you will be disclosed to third parties and related to your twitter account. Details about the use of your data by Twitter as well as your legal rights and setting options for the protection of your personal data can be taken from the data protection notice of Twitter: http://twitter.com/privacy

If you visit a website of our web presence using such a plug-in, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of Google. The content of this plug-in is transmitted by Google directly to your browser and embedded in the visited website.

The embedding of the plug-ins informs Google about the visit of our website. If you are logged in Google+, Google+ can associate your visit with your Google+ account. Purpose and extent of data collection, the further processing and use of data by Google+ as well as your related rights and setting options for the protection of your privacy can be taken from the data protection instructions of Google+.

If you visit a website of our web presence using such a plug-in, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of YouTube. The content of this plug-in is transmitted by YouTube directly to your browser and embedded in the visited website.

Several pages of our offer contain so-called embeddings of videos on YouTube. They allow the connection to YouTube only.

Details about the processing of your data by YouTube as well as your rights and setting options for the protection of your privacy can be taken from the data protection instructions by YouTube: https://www.google.de/intl/de/­policies/privacy/